From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtc_valid_tm doesn't check tm_wday
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:40:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804290340.16642.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429064408.GA8352@digi.com>
On Monday 28 April 2008, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently writing an rtc driver and want to use rtc_valid_tm to
> assert to have a valid date before writing it to the rtc.
>
> Now I wonder why rtc_valid_tm doesn't check tm_wday for being in the
> range [0 .. 6]. Is there a reason?
As far as I know, the kernel doesn't use tm_wday, tm_yday, or
tm_isdst ... so none of those fields are expected to be valid.
See the rtc(4) manpage.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 6:44 rtc_valid_tm doesn't check tm_wday Uwe Kleine-König
2008-04-29 10:40 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-29 12:22 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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